Gracey

HA! If only I'd known...

I have an undergrad in poli sci (and an MBA). We had to look at the federal budget in some class. If that can't raise your blood pressure and/or make you upchuck, nothing will. And that was many many years ago. BTW, the chick flick comment was hysterical. Can you imagine some "normal" people sitting in the Senate facility and all of these entitlement people having to come back and ask for funding? Hilarity would ensue. (Of course, you and I might fight about some of the funding!) We could "reach across the aisle" to take money from tons of "people"! Studying how ketchup flows due to gravity? Uh nope. Me: Let's take that money and give it to abused women's shelters! You: Reaching over to take some. Me: THWAP! ha Building a bridge nowhere? NOPE! :tt1: Cha-ching - savings against the $7T debt! My biggest one - golden parachutes for the sh!theads that benefited from the bailout? OH H TO THE NO!!! <jumping off the crazy, late night soapbox>

I haven't done enough research to know if Keyes' 13% tax would bring in enough revenue. I would just like for everyone to pay taxes and not just reap benefits! For me to be a Dem, I am a businesswoman. I would LOVE to get my hands on the federal budget with a red pen. I would have a blast! You want money for arrow mfrs in Oregon? Um sorry!

LOL - right?? Honestly it kind of scared me as I live alone. Then I got worried that they would do something to my house/yard b/c I have no candy. I'm on liquids after having just been banded - I don't want candy in this house!!! :tt1:

Explain to me why a middle schooler-teenager came up begging for candy at 10:50pm!?! WTH?

Hey you asked the question!!!!!!! I can't wait for it all to be overrrrr! PS - November 21 will be in here no time! I think I was scheduled a month out and thought it would take forever. It didn't!!! Now I'm just so sick of liquids, I could scream!

I love it! The voting machine manufacturer promised Bush Ohio in the last election and you claim the Dems are the voting cheaters? Pot + kettle. Gadget - saying that the President, Congress, and Supreme Court will all be liberal is misstating (not direct quote clearly). The Supreme Court was rather balanced until Bush got to replace two during his eight (horrible) years. Just saying. Additionally, there were some posts about the different theories on economics. The worst cases of poverty and homelessness were during Ronald Reagan's two terms of "trickle-down" (or supply-side) economics which Mr. McCain also endorses. Reagan cut taxes on the rich from 70% to 28% but alas, the tricklin' never began. All that being said, I still favor the fair tax! PS - Explain to me why a middle schooler-teenager came up begging for candy at 10:50pm!?! WTH?

Dear John McCain: You sly dog. You wanted someone to lasso up the Hillary supporters and you nailed it! It takes but one glance at Sarah Palin to see why you would chose her. I mean, it’s like holding up a mirror to Hillary Clinton! Except that she’s anti-abortion (even in cases of rape and incest!!!) and believes that creationism should be taught in public schools. And that she thinks global warming is a “hoax.” And then there’s the whole pro-NRA thing. Not to mention the fact she’s married to a BP employee and is chomping at the bit to rape her home state for a cheap oil and natural gas fix. And, well, there’s the pesky problem that a year and half ago her job was being the mayor of a town with a population of 8,500 when you, Mr. McCain, have been berating Barack Obama for lack of experience. I’m also sorry to report, she’s currently being investigated for abuse of power in her own state. (Let’s face it Johno, how much power is there in Alaska? I mean, come on. If you’re abusing power there, you are working hard to be smarmy!) But I gotta hand it to her, that is one sweet couch. The ginormous crab might be a bit over the top though. While it’s entertaining as hell to watch from afar as the Republican pundits try to spin this positively, it’s also SO GOD DAMNED EMBARRASSING. Mr. McCain, you were supposed to be different. You were supposed to be the “good Republican.” And now you’ve completely succumbed to pandering, insulting and frankly, dangerous tactics. Let’s be frank. You are no spring chicken and unfortunately you’ve had your share of scary cancer moments. Conservatives always counter the age issue with the fact that Reagan was old as shit too, but it’s also common knowledge that he had Alzheimer’s while in office and that he “could not recall” vital moments of the Iran-Contra “affair.” That said, is it safe to place the future in Palin’s hands? Once you start your inevitable war against Iran (the one that Iran insists will be the beginning of World War III and even your mentor George Bush recently realized was not worth it) will she be the person we need leading that charge? It’s absolutely terrifying. A friend wondered aloud tonight if the Republicans are trying to throw you under the bus. If the choice of Palin was a way to spare the other potential VPs from an embarrassing loss and therefore saving them to run in 2012. I wouldn’t put it past the GOP, but honestly, can the U.S. survive another four years of incompetent leadership? No. The answer is an emphatic “NO!” So Mr. McCain, I hope you know what you’re doing. I hope she is as smart as you claim. I hope to hell that you lose, and preferably lose BIG. But, I know my country. I know how selfish it has become. I know how short-sighted and petty. And I know there is a damn good chance you can still win this election. I sincerely hope not.

Where did you have your surgery?

If you had your surgery in America, Dr. Steinberg will do fills, I believe. He's at the DeKalb Medical Center in Decatur. 404-501-7903

aww! i had one ding-dong (doorbell) but during liquids, i didn't want candy in the house. :smile2:

Lulu - had you had fried pickles before you moved to the south?

Blech!!! :smile2:

Lulu - those doggies have grown so much! He is so precious!!

Lulu - we need new puppy pics, ma'am!!! Post the Giants lab too! Congrats on the date, Ebony! Stock up on those protein shakes!!!

Ugh - that made ME burp just reading it!!! :smile2:

HA! :biggrin:

Anyway....

Ha!!! Not me - i don't cook.

The GOP ticket's appalling contempt for science and learning. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine Finally, someone has the stones to articulate what is really at stake. Down with anti-intellectualism!!! "...This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just "people of faith" but theocratic bullies. On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and stupidity."

I would seriously slap her if I could. I am livid right now.

Cleerly those of us thaht thenk differently than some are jest plane stoopid. Keep thinking that you're above alllllll of us b/c, by damn, Bush has been a fabulous president. I'm unsubscribing now b/c that kind of thinking makes me absolutely SICK TO MY NEWLY BANDED STOMACH. Good for you, Gadget et al.....God put YOU on the earth white, Republican, and Christian. Thank goodness you're one of the chosen ones. EYEROLL Oh and PS - our Founding Fathers didn't fight for YOU to be able to own any kind of gun other than one that fired once after one packed in the gun powder.

Ask and ye shall receive. This has over 200 recipes for liquids and smoothies. I purchased 2 bottles of the Davinci syrups. They help but I'm still REALLY tired of liquids!!! 2 weeks out and I'm down 16.5 though. :biggrin: http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f82/200-p...recipes-49774/

Michele - I'm sorry that you hurt so much. I really didn't hurt much at all. The nurse even commented that I didn't hit my morpheine drip much. I'm 2 weeks out today and every once in a while have a wee bit of tenderness where the port is but that's all. I was lucky and had no gas though, thankfully.